I use a cable to my iPad. The WiFi signal to my audio room is weak so hopefully that makes the rf weak as well.
Kris, is your current set with WiFi and filtering switches sonically better than your prior Lan cable to iPad?
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Kris, is your current set with WiFi and filtering switches sonically better than your prior Lan cable to iPad?
This is a example of WiFi RF directly causing noise in the signal domain. A Berning zotl circuit utilizes a carrier frequency of 250,000hz or 500,000hz within its circuits. In my system the WIFI AP in close proximity to my zotl preamp generated an audible beat frequency at the speakers. Moving the device 6 ft. away from the preamp reduced the “noise” below audible levels.
Others have written about the wifi RF interfering with digital devices, but it was uncertain whether in the analog or digital domain.
So, with every gain stage or device having an unknown resonance, every receiver operating with unknown parameters, etc. etc., any strong RF can mess with the signal, although system and device dependent.
Others have written about the wifi RF interfering with digital devices, but it was uncertain whether in the analog or digital domain.
So, with every gain stage or device having an unknown resonance, every receiver operating with unknown parameters, etc. etc., any strong RF can mess with the signal, although system and device dependent.
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My house has been 100% solar for the past 5 years. I have none of the sound you are hearing or trying to avoid. My entire grid has a micro inverter for each panel. There just isn't the noise you say you want to stamp out. In fact I listen usually in the afternoons when all my house energy is solar generated and I just don't see the need fo adding ferrites. Further my satellite router which is in my sound room behind my amplifiers is by all accounts begging for reception problems and noise.....I have none. My main router is in a main floor bedroom and I transmit wifi from the router to the satellite in my sound room and I just don't have any of these issues running RJ45 from this satellite to my switch and then to the Extreme. In fact when people come for a listen and I tell them that what they are hearing is all solar power not one has mentioned hearing any extraneous RF noise
@Steve Williams yes, we discussed this on a separate thread. You have a different microinverter based system which is not available in my area. I am using Solaredge:
SolarEdge Solar Panel RFI Video - YouTube
as a side note i have reached out to at least 7 other audiophiles who have Solaredge systems and none of them discern a drop in SQ after solar either during day or night.
But to Emile's point, the interference with Solaredge inverters is 14Mhz and above so per his experiments these don't really interfere.
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Steve you're right, I probably should.. but $500 for peace of mind hahaha!so you can forget the ferrites
I am lucky having home quite far from a city and not many homes in my area.
I checked with wifi detector. None except of my own wifi.
But we share same power line .
Fortunatelly Emile will free my Extreme from this power line ….
I investigated it and solved few issues but was unable to fix it all .
what I do I disconnect grounds in all my supplys and disconnect connecting cables and check with multimeter each connection Being present or isolated.
I was able to eliminate few secondary grounding roads .
I must say it was very effective in reducing noise.
each and every device has to be grounded for ultimate performance
BUT only to one way to the ground .
this is hard to do.
the only thing that had one grounding way was Extreme , untill the DAC cable was used.
DAC was passing ground to switch and switch to the power supply and this one to common ground,
But I disconnected the Taiko switch power supply ground and this way it is grounded only via DAC cable to extreme ground. This worked very well.
If you mean Taiko vs. EtherREGEN, I made this very upgrade and there is no comparison, the Taiko Switch (+NIC) has made a significant improvement on every respect.
I briefly tried to let the ER in the chain, together with the Taiko switch, and to be honest I did not find any merit in it, so my ER is going on the classifieds soon.
Thanks. I see you're in Florence. Love it! I was just there last month! My profile thumbnail is a sunset in Cortona.
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As marvelous as XDMS sounds with small files, I hope we can have the ability to play larger files (2GB ±200K) soon. The more I play through my library, the more I find I can't play.
Did it 2 weeks ago,
Taiko switch is far superior in every way. I mean really far.
Uptone is great ( best) for the money you pay for it.
But now it acts as an Access point defense / isolator together with 2 Buffalo switches.
Ether Regen has very good isolating transformers on each wire connection . Well designed.
Also keep in mind they sold 3200 EtherRegens , so very big sucess
and they are working now on EtherRegen2
That will have 1G speed between A and B ports with 100 % isolation .
Only 3-4? I see 8-10 here
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